Category: Battle Roller

It still looks like the dog’s dinner since I haven’t touched design or any styling, but the HTML is more or less in place except for some JS hooks that will get added as needed, and I’ve got more or less all the controls working to swap out variables, images, texts, etc. Building it using …

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Nothing to show off yet, but I’ve started working on a customizer app that will let players mix/match parts and colors for pilots and rollers and will generate the required cards, a custom playmat, and the papercraft miniatures templates for them.

reworked the play mat based on the recent play test. I’ve expanded the SPD area so it’s more obvious where to put your EN; I’ve gotten rid of the extra weapon and shoulder unit spots since no Rollers currently have any use for them; I’ve tightened up the layout in order to add a cheat …

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got to have a great play test with Duane Johnson, Erin Johnson, and Stephen Brock this past weekend and got some really great feedback as well as got to work out some issues I hadn’t thought about. The “jack” mechanic worked out really well and kept the game going for a bit even once your …

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I had to create a test blog for work (several actually) as we’re QAing a bunch of stuff. Naturally all mine were named something to do with robots. But my favorite was “Mechromancer”. I love that name so much I’d totally change my online handle if I didn’t have 16+ years of online history invested …

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Hey Justin, Joachim, and/or Tim; I have a quick question… I realized that I forgot a page in the rule book on Pilots. So I’ve currently got it so that you can eject any time, your turn or not. And on your turn you can attempt to hijack another Roller. If successful then the current …

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Xian Brock updated the group photo in Battle Roller.

Went through all the rules with a fine tooth comb, replaced all artwork to use the papercraft based models; combined the “basic” and “advanced” rules into a single rule set. (there’s no longer 2 different rule versions)

Hey guys, since this was on sale I picked it up. I think I’m going to try and recreate Battle Roller in it, in hopes of getting more play testing (maybe from you). But I think that all players have to have a copy of this program.